Thursday, April 10, 2025

My knee-jerk reaction to tariffs...

 
I was at this gigantic liquor store yesterday near me - Total wines and more - getting a birthday present for one of my poker buds. No idea why it popped in to my head this thing about teriffs on shit from Ireland, but I figured fuck it, what's the worst that could happen? I bought four bottles of Jamie - better safe than sorry, right? Oh - another thing. Last time we were coming home from Dublin and I went to the duty-free shop and bought a .750 bottle of Jamie for $ 32.00 thinking it was a decent price, right? Yesterday at Total wines they were $ 24.99. WTF is that all about? I thought that duty free shit was supposed to be so  much cheaper...
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Everybody talks about tariffs as the first thing. Tariffs are the last thing. Tariffs are part of the negotiation. The real trick is going to be increase American exports. Get rid of some of the tariff and non-tariff barriers to American exports.

- Wilbur Ross                 
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These guys are probably shakin' in their boots trying to figure out what'll happen to 'em if the China tariffs stay in place for even a couple of months. I was in one yesterday briefly and I swear to ya, easily 75% or maybe more of their inventory is cheap chinese shit. They're gonna have alot of problems getting inventory. Truth is though - if ya think about it - there is virtually nothing that's made in China that we really need. We've gotten so addicted to cheap shit from there - shit that doesn't last anyway and ends up in the shit can in six months. We gotta learn to not need it and fuck 'em.
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Oh, I'm so sorry...
Did you come here looking
for hard-hitting news and 
commentary?
My bad...
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Haven't seen her in a while, have we?
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Yeah - herself texted this to me last night. If I've heard her say 'You're not wearing that, are you?' once, I've heard it 5,000 times. Juss' sayin'...
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10 comments:

  1. Dollar Stores will still have all the crap that they sell that was someone else's merch that went past the sell-by date, right? Yeah, a lot of their crap is imported, but they always seem to have a lot of stale stuff that is past its shelf-life.

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    1. It's an opportunity for American entrepreneurs to make that cheap crap here. With those plastic printers available to anybody, what's to stop them? That's the point, to bring back manufacturing to America.

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    2. I seem to recall that not too many years ago Commiefornia had a $5 trillion economy. That was before Elon took his biz to Texas.

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  2. I ordered a case of Scotch a few days back. A 25% increase in price would price it to where I could not afford it.

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  3. THAT alone is reason enough to fight to keep 2A

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  4. The scary part of that Crockett bitch is the amount of people gullible enough to swallow her hate. Why isn't she and the rest like her not in jail for incitement? Jayapal came right out and called for violence and riots in the streets.

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  5. We use no sugar anymore and don't even miss it. I use a little allulose and monk fruit and that's it.

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  6. Meghan Markle is like most black women who are convinced they are Gods' gift to the world. Looking at you Oprah.

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  7. well, when "they" where picking cotton, at least they where not shooting and killing each other like they do now a days.
    and YES. it been a while since you had HER on. great smile and laugh at the end. she looks like she be a blast to have.

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  8. Only egits believe duty free is cheaper. I pay $18 for 750ml Jameson

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